You have been having our rights so long, that you think, like a slave-holder, that you own us. I know that it is hard for one who has held the reins for so long to give up; it cuts like a knife. It will feel all the better when it closes up again.
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it? - Sojourner Truth
If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it?
- Sojourner Truth
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. - Sojourner Truth
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail.
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?… - Sojourner Truth
And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?…
Truth is powerful and it prevails. - Sojourner Truth
Truth is powerful and it prevails.
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? W… - Sojourner Truth
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? W…
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my lif… - Sojourner Truth
Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my lif…
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit. - Sojourner Truth
Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years … - Sojourner Truth
I am above eighty years old; it is about time for me to be going. I have been forty years a slave and forty years free and would be here forty years …
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, an… - Sojourner Truth
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, an…
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